I finally figured out what bothers me about affect theory (opens in new tab)

In The Sonic Episteme I wrote about how feminist new materialism says that it’s recouping philosophy’s unjustly excluded other (matter), but what it actually does is double-down on old hierarchies and exclusions by reframing them in new terms. Because some strains of affect theory have similar critiques of representation and gestures towards recouping what “representation” supposedly excludes, could affect theory be understood as doing something similar? Could the project of “affect theory” a...